Railway-switch.



A. GOULOMBE.

RAILWAY SWITCH.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 24, 1911.

Patented July 16, 1912.

wm Q nu INVENTOR Arthur Coulo be. BY

AITORIVEVS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPN 60., WASHINGTON n. c.

ARTHUR COULOIVIBE, OF NEW IBEDFORI), MASSACHUSETTS.

RAILWAY-SWITCH.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR CoULoMBE, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and a resident of New Bedford, in the county of Bristol andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Railway-Switch, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to railway switches, and it has for its object toprovide one having a rock shaft extending longitudinally of the maintracks, with two arms secured to the rock shaft, one of the arms havingmeans for operating the switch rail, and the other arm having means bywhich it is adapted to be operated by an adjustable member on a car.

Additional objects of my invention will appear in the following completespecification, in which the preferred form of the invention isdisclosed.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the views, in which Figure 1 is a sectional longitudinalelevation showing my improvement; Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1; Fig.3 is a transverse sectional view of Fig. 1, showing the means forrocking the shaft; and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of Fig. 1,showing how the rock shaft is adapted to I operate the switch rail.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that in bearings in a tube5 there is journaled a rock shaft, 6, the tube 5 being preferablydisposed in the road bed beneath the ties 7 to which the main rails 8are secured. Arms 9 and 10 are secured to the rock shaft 5. To the arm10 there is articulated a link 11, this link 11 being secured to a pin12, this pin being secured to the switch rail 13, which is disposed formoving laterally on a seat 14, there being a slot 15 in the said seatthrough which the pin 12 is disposed. The other arm 9 is articulated toa pin 16, which is disposed through a slot 17, in a seat 18, on which alever 19 is disposed, the lever 19 being pivoted at one end at 20, andto the other end the pin 16 is secured. A tapering guide 21 is provided,which. leads to the lever 19, at its pivoted end 20. On the car 22 thereis a lever 23, at the lower terminal of which there is journaled a wheel24, and when the motorman on the car is desirous of throwing the switchrail 13 he operates the lever 23 so Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 24, 1911.

Patented aul ie, 1912. Serial No. 645,705.

that the wheel 24 will be disposed either to the right or to the left ofthe guide 21, and as the car advances the wheel 24; will be disposedbetween one of the sides 25 of the seat 18 and one of the sides of thelever 19, so that the wheel 24 will move the lever 19 which by means ofthe arm 9 will rock the shaft 5 rocking the arm 10, and operating thelink 11 to move the switch rail 13 in the manner indicated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In a railway switch a main rail, a seat disposed at the side of themain rail and below the horizontal plane at the top of the main rail,there being a slot in the bottom of the seat, a switch rail disposed formoving in the seat, a pin on the switch rail extending in the slot, arock shaft, an arm on the rock shaft, a link secured at one end to thepin below the seat and articulated at its other end to the arm, a secondseat disposed below the horizontal plane at the top of the main rail andhaving a slot and sides extending upwardly substantially to thehorizontal plane at the top of the main rail, a tapering guide securedto the seat between the sides thereof, a lever pivoted to the seatbetween the sides, and forming a continuation of the tapering guide, apin secured to the lever and disposed in the lastmentioned slot, and anarm secured to the rock shaft, and articulated to the lastmentioned pin.

2. In a railway switch a main rail, a seat disposed at the side of themain rail and below the horizontal plane at the top of the main rail,there being a slot in the bottom of the seat, a switch rail disposed formoving in the seat, a pin on the switch rail extending in the slot, arock shaft, an arm on the rock shaft, a link secured at one end to thepin below the seat and articulated at its other end to the arm, a secondseat disposed below the horizontal plane at the top of the main rail andhaving a slot and sides extending upwardly substantially to thehorizontal plane at the top of the main rail, a tapering guide securedto the seat between the sides thereof, a lever pivoted to the seatbetween the sides, and forming a continuation of the tapering guide, apin secured to the lever and disposed in the last-mentioned slot, and anarm secured to the rock shaft, and articulated to the last-mentionedpin,

a lever adapted to be carried by a car, a In testimony whereof I havesigned my wheel mounted to rotate on the lever which name to thisspecification in the presence may be moved by'the lever at either sideof of two subscribing Witnesses.

the tapering guide, to contact With the side v ARTHUR COULOMBEE 5 of thelever at the adjacent side of the sec- Witnesses:

end-mentioned seat to move the lever from J. OSCAR FAUPINE,

the said side of the seat. JOSEPH N. HAMEL.

Copies of this patentmay be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

